Globally, hunger likely to worsen
NZPA-AP Washington The spectre of world hunger is moving nearer as the number of people increases and the land loses its capacity to grow enough food to keep pace with population, says the head of the Worldwatch Institute, Lester Brown. “With more hungry people in the world today than when this decade began, .here’s little to celebrate on the food front as we enter the 19905,” he said. Mr Brown said he saw no sure-fire way to boost global food production enough in the 1990 s to keep pace with the likely population growth. “The only reasonable goal will be to try and cut (population growth) in half by the end of the century, essentially what Japan did in the 1950 s and what China did in the 19705,” he said. Reaching that goal would be “perhaps more demanding than anything the international community has ever undertaken,” Mr Brown added.
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